Combination container and goblet for liquids



COMBINATION CONTAINER AND GOBLET FOR LIQUIDS Filed May 8, 1956 Patented1July 6, 1937 PATENT .OFFICE COMBINATION CONTAINER AND GOBLET I FORLIQUIDS Gel-vase P. Daniels, Minneapolis, Minn.

ApplicationMay 8, 1936, Serial '-No. 78,631 2 claims. (cl. 215-1) Thisinvention relates to liquid containers and more particularly to abottle, can or the like provided with a diminished pouring neck andadapted to be quickly converted into a, goblet or In the sale andconsumption of beverages, the

' beverage is usually poured from a bottle or other container into aglass and drunk from the glass by the consumer. The cost of suchglasses, the

washing and sterilizing of the same to the proprietors of on-salebeverage houses, With the attendant breakage has been substantial. It isfound a great convenience in homes to have a bottle, can or otherbeverage container which may be easily converted into a goblet or glassif desired.

It is an object of my invention to provide an exceedingly simple,practical and ornate liquid container whichmay be in the form of abottle,

can or the like, -which may be quickly converted into a large mouthed'goblet or glass without removing the contents from the container.

It is a further object to provide adevice of the class described whichis as well adapted for packaging and transportation as containersheretofore utilized and which may be manufactured at relatively lowcost, the cost being slightly if any in excess of the cost of suchcontainers as are now extensively used.

A still further object is the provision of a combination container andgoblet for liquids, which provides, in its base portion when convertedinto a goblet, a suitable ash tray.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be morefully set forth in the following description made in connection with theaccompanying drawing, in which like reference characters refer tosimilar parts throughout the several views, and in which:-

Fig. 1 is a side elevation with some portions of the closure caps beingbroken away showing a bottle embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a view mostly in side elevation but with the base cap shown insection of the same bottle converted to a goblet with its larger endopened;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the base cap detached;

Fig. 4 is a. side elevation of the base cap.

In the form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, a bottlesuitable for containing beer, soft drinks and the like is showncomprising a hollow open ended body B which may be constructed of glass,pottery or the like having a restricted pouring neck I0 terminating inan annular rounded seating ange Illa and having an open relatively largebottom I I terminating in an annular seating ange IIa. The flanges IIIaand IIa furnish beads or annular shoulders for receiving crimped caps I2and I3 respectively 5 for the most part of conventional type which capsare made out of flexible metal and usually are provided withcompressiblesealing disks within the top portions thereof constructed ofcompressible material such as cork or fiber and 10 which engage againstthe annular edges of the bottle ends to be capped. The upper cap I2covers the pouring neck end of the bottle and as shown the lower andlarger cap I3 covers the bottom of the container body B. Both caps are15 detachably applied to the body B with sealed joint effect. In sealingthe bottle in the brewery or bottling works the larger or bottom cap I3vis attached to the body B and the bottles filled by automatic machineryor otherwise in the usual 20 manner. 'I'he upper caps are then placed onby suitable capping machines.

The larger or base cap I3 is provided, centrally, with an upstandingsocket member I4 of cup shape which may be centrally riveted, spot 25welded or otherwise secured to the body of the cap I3. Socket member I4is cylindrical in shape and of such diameter as to snugly receiveY thecapped upper end of the bottle and suitable means are provided forsecuring the container body B to socket member I4 in inverted andupright position as shown in Fig. 2. Various cooperating means betweenthe bottle body or the upper cap I2 and socket member I4 may beutilized. As shown, socket memoer I4 is provided with a pair of opposedbayonet joint slots I4a which extend through the upper edge of thesocket member and which are adapted to receive a pair of lugs IIIbintegrally formed or if v,desired connected by a metal band with theneck'iprtion'of the bottle body. 40 The lugs Ib are .psitioned theproper distance from the upperextremity of the bottle body to cause saidextremity to rest against the disk portion of base cap I3 when the bodyis inverted and attached as shown in Fig. 2.

In the inverted attached position shownin Fig.

2 a convenient goblet is formed supported upon the larger cap member I3as a base and having the larger open end of the body B uncovered toafford a large rim from which the contents may 50 be drunk.

It will be noticed that in inverting the container body and convertingit into a goblet, the contents are not removed.

It further will be noted that the base cap I3, 55

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided asimple, practical and economical combination container and gobletconstruction for holding beverages which is capaas Well as ble of beingpackaged and shipped refilled.

Beverage parlors and soda fountains may dispense with the use of glassesin serving beverages and thus may economize not only inthe cost of suchglasses, but on the loss through breakage as well as in the expense ofwashing and sterilizing the same.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made inthe form, details, proportions and' arrangement of the parts, withoutdeparting from the scope of my invention, which, generally stated,consists in a device capable of carrying out the objects above set forthand in the novel parts and combinations of parts disclosed and dened inthe appended claims.

What is claimed is:-

1. A combination container and goblet of the class described having incombination, an open ended container 'body having a reduced pouringneck, the ends of said body providing annu1a anges, a relatively largedetachable base cap having a resilient crimped securing flange adaptedto frictionally surround the larger flange of said container body, asimil-arly constructed small cap frictionally connected with the smallerange of said body at the end of said pouring neck, said base cap havinga 'centrally disposed socket element for receiving the capped smallerend of said body and cooperating means including an element formed insaid socket and an element formed on the pouring neck of said body justbelow the annular flange of said pouring neck for positively securingthe body to said larger cap in inverted position with the larger end ofsaid body open to form a goblet.

2. The structure set forth in claim 1 whereinA said securing meanscomprise a bayonet joint structure with the socket of said large caphaving a bayonet slot formed therein extending from its edge and withsaid body provided -with a projecting lug just below the smaller annularange for engagement with the slotted portion of said socket.

GERVASE P. DANLELS.

